secret that Viola keeps and reveals. Viola is a lady of Messaline who has been shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria. Believing her brother Sebastian is dead‚ she wants to start a new life in Illyria‚ but the court of Lady Olivia is not accepting any new members because Lady Olivia is in mourning after her father and brother have died. In order to join the court of Duke Orsino‚ Viola must disguise herself as a boy named Cesario. Orsino accepts “Cesario” into his court and from that point on‚ secrecy
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love. He is in love with Olivia but she is not interest in him. Curio is Orsino’s servant. Viola is in Illyria because of a shipwreck and was separated from her brother Sebastian. She decides to disguise herself as a man named Cesario. Viola‚ as Cesario‚ starts to work for Orsino. Sir Toby Belch is Olivia’s uncle who is a drunk and is rude. Maria is a smart and likes dry humor. Sir Andrew is a cocky man that thinks he posses many skills. Orsino is in love with Olivia but she doesn’t want to be
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thought that her brother has died in a shipwreck that they were both in. Viola disguises herself as a man to seek employment under the Duke Orsino’s court. The confusion occurs‚ when Viola tells Orsino that she loves someone (Orsino)‚ when she tells Olivia that she cannot love a woman‚ and when Viola reveals some true facts about her identity to other characters‚ such as Festé the fool. Confusion is always occurring in Twelfth Night‚ and characters are too blinded by love to see the truth behind everything
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a eunuch‚ Maria who writes a letter to Malvolio as Olivia‚ and then the mix-up between Sebastian and Viola are revealed. The instances of mistaken identity are related to many disguises in the play. Viola‚ who puts on male attire‚ begins to have everyone believe that she is a man. By dressing up in male garments‚ she wants to be taken as a eunuch. Viola assumes the name Cesario. While talking with the captain‚ Viola begins to realize that Olivia also lost her brother and is grieving just as Viola
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without first understanding all of the facts. In The Hundred Secret Senses‚ a romance and mystery novel‚ Amy Tan tells the story of Olivia and her half-sister Kwan – how they grow up together and help each other‚ while also depicting Kwan’s former life in China‚ and Olivia’s relationship with her love‚ Simon. The novel has two main characters‚ Kwan and Olivia. Kwan and Olivia share the same father‚ but after his death‚ Kwan moves to California to live with Olivia’s family. Kwan is extremely annoying
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set‚ although the sun in their life was Auggie‚ Via (Olivia) was a very important character in the novel. Throughout Augusts struggle Via had to handle hers maturely‚ she even recognized the fact that she does not receive as much attention from her parents. August stated that “Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world” (R.J Palacio‚ Wonder). Although at first she was hardly seen towards the end of the story Olivia was overcoming her struggles and becoming even stronger
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beautiful lady Olivia. From the first line of the play‚ Orsino’s character can already be distinguished as he rant about his love for Lady Olivia; “If music be the food of love‚ play on”‚ from this we already get the gist that he is a melancholy character. He uses the words such as ‘excess’‚ ‘surfeiting’‚ ‘appetite...sickening’ and ‘dying fall’ in his rant about his love for Olivia. These words suggests that that duke is not only in love with a person but more to love itself. Even though Olivia rejects
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and you cannot easily or willing escape. Examples include Malvolio’s love for Olivia‚ the love triangle between Olivia‚ Duke Orsino‚ and Viola as Cesario‚ and Antonio’s crush on Sebastian. There are countless occasions where unrequited love for another results in heartbreak and sorrow. Malvolio is a social climber‚ he feels that if Olivia would love him his status would be higher. But because of his pompous attitude Olivia is definitely not in love with him‚ and the rest of the house finds him quite
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creates a comical effect at the beginning of the play through the hyperbole of his love for Olivia‚ his love is exaggerated from the beginning of the play and creates dramatic comedy for the audience as they recognise he is not in love with Olivia but is in fact in love with the feeling of being in love. The false view of love Orsino shows humours the audience as they realise he only cares for himself and not Olivia‚ throughout the scene he expresses how in love he is however he does not use Olivia’s name
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Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a play completely focused on the notions of performance‚ disguise‚ and deception. The characters are all acting in roles to meet their own goals‚ performing for the on-stage audience and deceiving everyone but the live audience off the stage. The use of dramatic irony is prevalent in order to engage and involve the audience‚ making them part of the play. Dramatic irony is a literary device wherein the audience is aware of pivotal information that the characters in
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